Dear Square Enix - I want to Craft

[Hanmerreborn]

I'm highly curious what fixes we are going to get in 3.07 and if things will get better enough... been such a mess I'm pretty peeved at this point. Its taken them entirely too long to put in fixes.

You just know the favors will only last 5 instead of 15 minutes and have the same exact drop rate.

But you guys said you didn't want to spend 11 hours doing it, now you only need 4!

[Joronas]

now now .. you know crafting is *still* too powerful, some of the tweaks are to make it even less useful and more frustrating. As long as 1 raider somewhere thinks for just a moment that a crafted piece can be pentamelded with all grade 5 materia to better then the alex normal item, crafting is too strong!

So we'll have 1 minute favours, with a 50% chance (SE RNG of course!) of getting 1 pop from clearing an ephemeral node ...

more realistically: maybe they'll have something that's not akin to pulling teeth. I don't see them revising the system enough to be a good one though, just one that isn't supremely awful. And I don't see them realizing just how bad the path they have gone for crafting in general is. I expect a few more rounds of doubling down on the bad decisions.

[Shadowsun]

I stopped reading stuff when I read "1.5m to cap red scrips last week, 600k this week"

What the hell
It cost me zero to cap it and its even faster since they increased the red scrips gains.

9 or 10x Aurum Regis Planisphere (had a star) worth 44 to 52 a pop. That was it for my week.
Had all materials already because I do gathering, retainer ventures and dragonskin maps (so many mats from those maps).

Of course the rest of the problem is using the red scrip tokens, I'm just hoarding mine until maybe one day Squenix stops being stupid about it and changes the system to something smart and fun instead.
Favors are dumb and completely unfun

[seorin]

Gathering all the materials yourself doesn't make them "free". It cost you time and the amount of gil you could have sold those items for. This is called opportunity cost, and it's very helpful to learn about as a crafter.

[Katlyna]

I stopped reading stuff when I read "1.5m to cap red scrips last week, 600k this week"
What the hell
It cost me zero to cap it and its even faster since they increased the red scrips gains.n

Different servers, different prices =-). And week one it was around 1-2million for people on our server to cap. Pretty nuts huh?

[Jade-Nephrite]

We'll see the changes they implement on Tuesday, they will probably unbalance the Favor Node mats and make the prices tank as a consequence. I wonder what new recipes they are releasing, I'm so bored with gathering lately.

[Hanmerreborn]

We'll see the changes they implement on Tuesday, they will probably unbalance the Favor Node mats and make the prices tank as a consequence. I wonder what new recipes they are releasing, I'm so bored with gathering lately.

Probably won't be until Thursday along with the scrip reset

[Ossom]

Probably won't be until Thursday along with the scrip reset

3.07 Is Monday Night. Favors are a separate entity compared to scrips so there is little chance they would wait till Thursday to update Favors.

[Hanmerreborn]

You just know the favors will only last 5 instead of 15 minutes and have the same exact drop rate.

But you guys said you didn't want to spend 11 hours doing it, now you only need 4!

I'm half a wizard. Lol 5 minutes will have even worse RNG than before. Get your arthritis pills ready cause it's time to click click click.

[Ossom]

I'm half a wizard. Lol 5 minutes will have even worse RNG than before. Get your arthritis pills ready cause it's time to click click click.

I love the new favors. Been click click clicking all morning. Stop whining.